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beginnings 01 INGS the construction of a new bridge across the whirlpool rapids of niagara peals palls which la in now BOW going on r revives ves a mem memory ory of the time and manner manier in which the first one was built it was in 1848 and it formed and still forms an impressive lesson among many similar ones of how great things grow from small ones all the intervening time the bridge has been an object of interest second only to the falls themselves and passage over it from the american to the canadian elde or vice versa WAS waa continuous and imparted to the individual an experience never to be forgotten tor for goten nature and art combining to produce a magnificent ent effect and yet alia straining and tugging one against te fhe 9 other ancer the Impre impressive sAvo 01 0 tate th seene was 11 nowhere po 00 broj pronounced pronoun oed so ao thoroughly of a by passing across that fe and in a is short hort time ilme to come the iconoclastic hand of um 0 will have set it aside pulled it apart and left nothing of its glories and its triumphs save those which exist within the warder of the brain thus do we progress in the town of lincoln nebraska lives an old man named homan walsh it is probable that his recollection of the building of the old bridge is quite vivid notwithstanding his sixty years or more of age he was a schoolboy when it was begun and he took a part in it that seemed small enough perhaps but may have been the means of forwarding the work some considerable time his task was consonant with the lesson spoken of at the commencement of this thi aati article he was an expert kite flyer and while the contractors were seeking some means of establishing communication with the opposite shore it occurred to one of them that master walsh and his kite might be able to solve the problem he was waa engaged for the work and got the kite across but a stiff breeze would not let it fall an all night vigil was rewarded with success cess the kite dropped on the opposite baz barbut bank but so much string stang had been paid out that it sagged down to the river and was broken by the running ice another attempt was more successful the string was the means of drawing a strong cord across this being fol lowed by a rope then a cable more cables were put in place and an iron basket was attached by which time the work was waa well under way and pushed to completion the boy was waa rewarded with fifty dollars in cash a good deal of money in those days and a good deal for a boy at any time there is food tor for reflection in thir thia little incident it should be not only a source of thoughtful admiration but another reminder of the sacred admonition so often ignored and contemned contemn ed not to despise the small things of the earth through the indolent observations of watts the human family were placed in possession of the steam engine and transplanted from medieval to the most advanced conditions 1 almost at a bound pre aily iab with the same beat implement that was used by the boy walsh tapped the electric repository y over overhead heiLd and brought the fluid to the earth this was pronounced a boyish freak of no consequence but the principle disclosed to mankind was waft destined in later years to do as much in the direction of metaphysical advancement van cement as the steam engine had accomplished in the matter of physical progress and thus it is in the world being full of events which pass un nn noted but gathered up and analyzed show us ua how true as well as poetical it is that little drops of water little grains of sand make the mighty ocean and the beauteous land |
